Sustainable Natural Resource Utilisation in Our Future

Sustainable production and future trend

Over the last 50 years the world’s population and industrialization have soared leading to increased resource use, pollution and waste, and in turn to problems including raw materials shortage and unsustainable increases in landfill areas environmental, social and economic expectation stakeholders of the company every day more and more. Designing products with reuse at end of life in mind is a ...

Our adolescents--our future.

Trade-led Growth, Natural Resource Dependence, and Sustainable Development

Since the Pinochet dictatorship in the 1970s, Chile has carried out neoliberal reforms. Successive governments have promoted exports, reduced tariffs, welcomed foreign investment, and pursued bilateral and regional trade agreements, including the recent U.S.-Chile Free Trade Agreement. Unlike most countries in the region, these reforms have produced rapid growth. Real growth rates in the 1990s ...

Participatory Indicator Development for Sustainable Natural Resource Management

There have been few attempts to develop, test or apply sustainability indicators for natural resource management at a farm-level, and even fewer have fully consulted land users from the initiation of this process. While environmental sustainability indicators need to be accurate and reliable, land users also need them to be rapid, cost-effective and easy to use, in addition to being linked to m...

Nigeria’s Satellite Data Utilisation for Sustainable Development

The fuel driving the engine of growth and sustainable development of any nation is the nation’s access to reliable and adequate geospatial information (GI). Over 80% of socio-economic and environmental management decisions are based on quality and accurate information on natural resources and other geospatial data. On the other hand, the roots of under-development of the third world countries, ...